Día de la Dignidad Nacional: Recuperación de La Brea y Pariñas (Peruvian stamp, 2.50 soles)
2.50-sol stamp: a bare-chested man holds a staff and a model oil derrick before a large Peruvian flag, with a map of the oilfield area beside the derrick, under the heading 'Día de la Dignidad Nacional' and the date 9 October 1968. The tell: a state commemoration of an expropriation is fused with the national flag and the abstract word 'dignity', so the stamp asks the holder to feel the oil takeover as the nation's honour rather than as an economic measure with costs and terms.
- Date
- 1969
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Peruvian state postal service (issued under the Revolutionary Government of the Armed Forces; designer credited only as 'I.N.A.')
- Region
- Latin America
- Country
- Peru
- Medium
- Stamp
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Velasco Government
- Leader
- Juan Velasco Alvarado
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Commemorate
- Theme
- Economy and finance
- Techniques
- TransferGlittering generalities
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (scan by Miguel Alan Córdova Silva, user MiguelAlanCS), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain per Commons: Peruvian state work pre-1971, term ended before URAA 1996 (Commons' stated basis)
Scan: Miguel Alan Córdova Silva, via Wikimedia Commons. Stamp issued by Casa de Correos y Telégrafos, Peru. Basis as stated on the Commons page (Law 13714 of 1961, 25-year term for public-entity works), not independently verified by FRAME.
Text on the object
DIA DE LA DIGNIDAD NACIONAL PERU RECUPERACION DE LA BREA Y PARIÑAS D.L. Nº 4 S/. 2.50 9 OCTUBRE 1968 I.N.A.
DAY OF NATIONAL DIGNITY PERU RECOVERY OF LA BREA AND PARIÑAS D.L. No. 4 S/. 2.50 9 OCTOBER 1968 I.N.A.
'S/.' is the sol de oro. 'D.L. Nº 4' is Decree-Law No. 4 of 9 October 1968. The meaning of 'I.N.A.' (below the design) is not stated on the stamp.
